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Damn. That is only a tiny little dip in the post/comment rate so far relative to the historical cycle. What, maybe 5%, assuming the vertical axis crosses at zero? Not terribly encouraging....
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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The large subs and front page just consist of bots reposting the same old content. The bots are easy to tell apart from real people just by eye, so I'm sure that reddit either has no problem with that or that they made these bots themselves to hide the fact that actual users are becoming less and less.
Yeah, I was negatively surprised as well. Almost 60% of all big SFW subreddits closed, and still only a small percentage less posts and comments.
I'm guessing (hoping) the difference at peak will be larger. All we can do now is wait and see, unfortunately.
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This is awesome. We all need to stick together on this one
R/SquaredCircle just went dark. They weren't even on the list as far as I saw.
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I was looking for something like this, thanks for sharing!
I'm really confused by the chart on the site https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ I understand the dip annotated with the red arrow, but I do not understand the rebound annotated with the green arrow... With that many sites down, it should not be possible to rebound to normal levels...
I could actually see engagement staying relatively the same since most people are probably popping Reddit open for a few minutes, maybe engaging, then moving on.
What I do find odd is how consistent Posts per minute are over time. But it doesn't dip or rise with comments. So now I'm wondering how automated a lot of posting is.
Bots, all the bot posts. If you even check "All" for a bit even on Lemmy you will see the bots are moving here as well.
If you go to the site and view by new it's just page after page of /r/askreddit. Tons of people posting to it with nowhere else to post. So that would explain some of the rebound but the graph is still odd that it rebounded to exactly where it should be if there was no blackout.
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This is great. Some big ones are already dark.
Time to sit back, relax, and watch ~~the world~~ Reddit burn 😎 🍿
This is amazing
Enjoyed watching the stream on twitch, was expecting more of a tsunami of subs going private quicker.
I was thinking it would happen at midnight (some local time) but the trickle of subs has been pretty neat actually.
My Reddit frontpage only contains a few minor subs still which are probably without an active moderator and some „going dark“ announcements. Very noticeable.
I just had a quick look on the front page on mobile browser, not logged in, and the top 2nd, 3rd, and 4th 'hot' posts are about the blackout, and the 'top' post is a thank you from the Apollo app creator.
(This is my first attempt at uploading a pic on here so 🤞)
I’m watching the lights go out in real time here with this site, it’s really cool to see!
So one thing I've noticed is that /r/videos is still labelled as "public" - I wonder if there's a way to show subreddits that have restricted new posts as well? (Maybe I'm missing the point here)
Check for r/argentina, could not find it but it will be dark temporarily, maybe it's because of that. Great site!
It appears that r/videos is public again and someone has posted 6h ago. Anyone know what is going on?
The notifications contain the wrong amount of members for the subreddit, they all say 5k and below ^^ Not that it really matters, just FYI
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This is great to see. Thanks for sharing.
Neat thanks for sharing! I've been looking for something like that!